NATO countries have launched an operation in the Black Sea: they are clearing the shipping corridor of mines

A group of ships of the Bulgarian and Romanian navies has started trawling (searching for and neutralizing sea mines) along the coast of Bulgaria, Andriy Klymenko, the head of the monitoring group of the Black Sea Strategic Research Institute, said.

The decision to start trawling was made on October 12, 2023 at a meeting in the Ramstein format in Brussels, and on October 16 the ships already went to sea.

The operation to search for mines is not limited to the territorial waters (12-mile zone) of Bulgaria, but extends to the adjacent water area, through which the routes of bulk carriers of the new Ukrainian grain corridor pass